"That's it, we need to get Phoebe." Alexis states, "Piper was suppose to blow up the demon and be back, and she's not."
"She's on a date with Jason," Paige replies
"Yeah, and I'm missing three weeks of school," Alexis snaps, she's lucky to have the stuff for most of the potions, she was to make in class here at the manor, but still she was missing her other world, the one she was born into, she wasn't missing a thing since she was studying in her spare time, but since she was demon hunting every other hour, it was hard.
"Oh alright," Paige states, before taking Alexis' hand and orbing off to the restaurant that Phoebe was at.
Paige and Alexis walks over to Phoebe and Jason.
"Hi." Paige and Alexis greet
"Paige. Alexis" Phoebe replies
"I am so sorry to interrupt but Piper's kind of got a bit of a, um, a power problem. She kind of needs some more." Paige explains
"Why doesn't she just call the power company?" Jason asks
"Tried and the line is busy. So if you could come like, right now, she'd really love it." Alexis answers
"Oh, oh, please don't use that word. Please don't use that." Phoebe begs then stands up. "Okay, alright, so I should go and we will, you know..."
Phoebe starts backing back.
"Talk." Jason finishes
"Talk, yeah." Phoebe agrees, then backs into a waiter holding a tray full of food. "Sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry! Okay."
"Okay." Paige replies
"Okay," Alexis seconds.
Phoebe, Alexis and Paige head for the door.
Phoebe looks toward a man "Oh, the stuffed shells, great choice. Okay. Bye everyone."
In an alley. Piper is there. She is watching a creature standing over a demon. The demon is screaming in pain. Phoebe, Alexis and Paige orb in.
"Okay, let's vanquish this demon." Paige states
"Shh. Something beat us to the punch." Piper replies
"Eww, what is it doing?" Alexis asks
"Apparently eating the demon." Piper answers
"Or storing it." Paige adds
The demon dies and turns to dust.
"What is it?" Phoebe asks
"I don't know, and I don't want to find out. Let's get out of here." Piper answers
The demon spots them and pokes its lizard-like tongue at them. It whizzes toward Phoebe and Paige and pushes them down the alley. Piper tries to blow it up, Alexis tries to shoot a jet of flames, and screams when they can't vanquish the demons. She continues to try and blow and burn them up.
"Paige, do something." Phoebe states
"Power line!" Paige exclaims, the power line orbs and falls on the creature, electrocuting and vanquishing it. Phoebe and Paige get up and race over to Piper, and Alexis.
"Are you okay?" Phoebe asks worried.
"Peachy." Piper replies
"Great," Alexis seconds
They hear a baby sound nearby. The walk over to a pile of blankets and pull them back. A baby is laying there. He sticks out his lizard-like tongue and the girls gasp.
"Cute." Paige states
The baby sticks out his tongue again.
Alexis stared at the tiny demon who looked like a human baby, something within her prompted her to pick up the baby, so she step up to it and swoop it up, was it because this creature was half breed because she could see that he had human blood in him, something called out to her like she needed to protect this child.
"Alexis?" Piper cautioned.
"It's okay, I think he was just scared," Alexis replies, "Let's go back, worse comes to worse we can bind his powers and take to a hospital."
The next morning, in the conservatory. Phoebe, Alexis and Paige are standing there watching the baby in the playpen.
"I still can't believe we vanquished its mummy." Phoebe states
"Yeah, but we didn't know it was a mummy and besides, mummy tried to kill us." Paige replies
"I know, still, look at how cute he is. So adorable. Oh, except when he does that weird little thing with his tongue." Phoebe states
Alexis crouched down at the playpen to see the baby better through the mesh, "I wonder why he looks so human?"
"I don't know, but he won't for long." Phoebe replies
Piper walks in. "Okay, Wyatt's upstairs, so at least he's..." Wyatt orbs into the playpen. "Safe."
"Don't worry about Wyatt, he's got his protective bubble. He'll use it if he needs it." Phoebe reasons
"Plus, it looks like he likes his new friend." Paige states
"That is not a friend, that's a demon." Piper counters
"No, he's just a baby." Alexis replies,
"Excuse me, were you at the same vanquish as me? Because it took all four of us to stop his mother." Piper replies
"It doesn't mean he's gonna turn out that way." Alexis states.
"Alexis, he doesn't have a choice, it's genetic." Phoebe replies
Alexis glared at Phoebe, "If it's genetic then vanquish me right now, because everyone in the Black family aside from my father were evil."
"I'm with Alexis, with this one. okay, maybe I'm a little biased because I am in fact adopted, but I really think there's something to that whole nurture versus nature thing and predicting how a kid is gonna turn out. You know, the classic environment versus biology argument." Paige replies
"But this is not a child, it's a demon." Piper states
"Okay, why don't you go over there and see if you can sense anything evil." Paige suggests
"Alright." Phoebe agrees, she walks closer to the playpen. "Nothing. Good or evil."
"our point exactly. Clay to be molded." Paige states
"Yeah, I don't know about that." Piper replies
"Still, the question remains what are we supposed to do with him?" Phoebe asks
Chris orbs in, with Lynx beside him.
"So you vanquished the demon?" Chris asks
"Yes and no." Piper answers
"Well, the good news is the demon you sent us after is in fact gone." Paige states
"And the bad news is whatever ate it, left us that." Phoebe states
Chris and Lynx looks in the playpen. The baby wiggles his lizard-like tongue at them.
"I think he likes you." Paige states
"I don't care. Vanquish it." Chris replies
Lynx had a hard time controlling her feelings, about that baby demon, she was sure this was the kid that was Wyatt's second in command.
"Chris." Alexis warns, she couldn't believe her ears that her own future nephew would say something like that.
"I mean it. Now." Chris replies
"No, we are not vanquishing a baby. What's wrong with you?" Paige asks
"I'm just concerned that this could be the future evil that gets to Wyatt." Chris explains
"Don't be ridiculous." Alexis states
"What? I'm being ridiculous? There is a demon in the playpen." Chris asks
The phone rings.
"I'll get it." Paige states,she heads for the phone.
"Hey, if it's Jason, tell him I'm in the shower." Phoebe called after her
"Are you avoiding him?" Piper asks
"Uh, kind of. I, um, sort of told him that I loved him last night." Phoebe replies
"Oh, and this is bad?" Alexis asks
"No, except I said 'I love you too' as if he said 'I love you' first, which he didn't." Phoebe answers
"So wait, you told him that he loves you before he tells you that he loves you?" Piper asks
"Mm-hm, mm-hm." Phoebe replies
"Yeah, that's not good." Piper agrees
"Yeah, I'll be lucky if he doesn't move to Hong Kong permanently now. I really thought I had my empath power under control." Phoebe states
"Forget that. What are you gonna do?" Chris asks
"What am I supposed to do? I mean, you know, you tell a guy that you love them and they bolt, you know, it's just what they do." Phoebe asks
"About the baby, I meant the baby. We gotta do something." Chris replies,The baby scoops up a pacifier with his tongue. "Fast."
The three females ignored Chris, and the three continued to stare into the playpen,
Piper covers her eyes. "Where's Wyatt? Where is he? Look, look, wait, listen. Where's Wyatt?" She uncovers her eyes. "There he is! Look, look. Where's Wyatt? Where's Wyatt? There he is! Alright."
"Okay, I don't think distracting him is the answer." Chris states
"Wyatt? Bad demon, very bad demon." Piper states
"Keep saying that and Wyatt's going to use his shield on us." Alexis states,
Paige walks in.
"Hey, was that Jason?" Phoebe asks
"No, that was my raison d'être." Paige answers
"Pardon?" Phoebe asks
"That was Darryl. I've been wondering why the temp agency hasn't called and now I know why. I needed to be free to help him." Paige replies
"To do what?" Piper asks
"Well, to save an innocent. Why else would he have called? And more importantly, why else would I have been the one to answer the phone?" Paige asks
"Because you were the closest to it?" Phoebe asks
"No, because it's my reason for being. Call me if you need help." Paige replies, she leaves.
"What, you're just gonna let her go?" Chris asks
"You're welcome to try and stop her." Piper replies
"You know, I should go talk to Jason." Phoebe states
"And her too." Alexis adds
"Wait, stop, where are you going? Are you slightly concerned that there's a demon in the house?" Chris asks
"Chris, this is a baby, okay? Relax." Phoebe replies, then looks at Piper "And you call me if you need anything. You too Lexi,"
"Love you too." Piper and Alexis replies
"Don't." Phoebe warns
"Sorry." Piper and Alexis apologizes
Phoebe leaves the room.
"And you're okay with this? Them dumping this on your laps like that?" Chris asks
"Well, they don't seem too worried." Piper replies, "And Alexis seems very protective of the baby for some reason,"
"Well, they should be. I need to figure out what kind of creature we're dealing with here." Chris replies
Lynx looked at Alexis before turning on her heel and walking out of the room, the look in Alexis' eyes right now, was about to make the teen cry.She needed to get away, "I'll get the Book."
"Lynx?" Alexis asked worried.
"It's nothing, Lexi." Chris muttered, "She's just upset,"
"About what?" Alexis asks
"Future consequences" Chris replies,
Lynx walked up into the attic, and sat down on couch grab the throw pillow and covered her face, and proceed to scream into it. 'I miss my family, I want my aunts and uncles, and cousins. Damn it Wyatt, why did you have to kill all of our family, why didn't you kill me as well. Why did my brother have to be stupid and get himself killed, so I lied about him being killed with the Curse, he jumped in the way of an energy ball meant for me.'
Lynx got her emotions under control and grab the Book and went downstairs. She handed the Book to her cousin, he flip through a few pages.
Chris is looking at the "Manticore" demons in the Book. " 'Vicious demons with supernatural strength and venomous claws. Manticores communicate with high-pitch cries and tend to travel in packs.' Great. Well, I say we get rid of the little brat before the pack comes looking for him."
"Okay, fine. What do you suggest we do with him? Call social services?" Piper asks
"No, I suggest you vanquish it." Chris replies
"Chris, I'm a mother, I can't go around vanquishing babies, no matter how evil they are." Piper states
"It's not how evil he is, it's how evil he's gonna be. You gotta stop looking at him like he's a little baby and start looking at him like he's an unstoppable killing machine, because that's what he is." Chris replies
Alexis covered her ears, she didn't want to hear this, she didn't believe a baby was a killing machine, it depends on how you raised your children.
"I realize that, but still." Piper replies
"But still nothing. You're supposed to protect the innocents, right? Well, think of all the future innocents you can save by vanquishing him right now." Chris states
"Don't you think I know that? I'm scared to death of what he can possibly do to Wyatt but I can't even separate them." Piper states
"The baby slept in my room with me last night, and I'm still here." Alexis states getting up, "Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go make him a bottle, poor thing looks hungry."
Lynx followed after Alexis, "He's right,"
Alexis didn't answer, she just made a bottle.
"Why do you care some much about a demon?" Lynx asks
Alexis spun on her heel, "Because he's just like me, a half breed. Two beings in one."
"I didn't realize that, but look at this from my point of view, that baby will grow up to be a killer," Lynx replies,
"I don't think so, look at our family Lynx, everyone of the Blacks were petty evil but evil none the less. My father didn't turn out like that, and neither did I, yes I was raised by the greatest good there is but still. I could have been." Alexis explains.
Lynx threw up her hands, "whatever don't come crying to me when he kills everyone with a temper tantrum." she turned and stalk off.
Golden Gate Bridge, Leo is standing on the very top of the bridge. He has his arms outstretched and has his eyes closed. Chris orbs in beside him.
"Leo, I have been looking everywhere for you. What are you doing up here?" Chris asks
"Communing with the others." Leo answers
"Can anyone see us?" Chris questions
"Not me. But you look like a lunatic standing up here talking to yourself. What do you want?" Leo asks
"It's about Piper." Chris replies
"Is she alright?" Leo asks
"Yeah, she's fine, don't worry. It's Wyatt I'm worried about." Chris answers
"Why? What happened?" Leo asks
"Well, nothing yet. Just out of curiosity, what's the Elders policy on vanquishing demon babies?" Chris asks
"Why?" Leo asks
"No reason. There's just one playing with Wyatt in his playpen as we speak." Chris replies
back in the kitchen, Alexis finished the bottle and went back into the conservatory, she bent over and gave the bottle to the Manticore offspring, Piper came over and picked up Wyatt, and walked over to the stairs to go toward the attic,
in the attic
"Okay, listen to me. You will not orb down to your little friend, do you understand me? No orbing." Piper states as she puts Wyatt in the playpen and the Manticore baby shimmers in beside Wyatt. Piper sighs. "I give up."
Alexis watched as the baby shimmered out, "that's new." she then went up to the attic.
"So what are we going to do?" Alexis asks before she could get an answer, Phoebe walks in.
"Phew, I have had it with men. They are incorrigible." Phoebe states,
"Well, let me tell you, little boys aren't much better." Piper replies,
"I mean, I can understand running, if he didn't love me back, you know. Fight or flight, it's the nature of the beast." Phoebe explains,
"Speaking of that." Piper replies
"But he does love me, I know, I felt it. So what's the big deal? You know, why is he running?" Phoebe asks
"Well, if it makes you feel any better, you probably won't be alive much longer to worry about it." Alexis replies,
"Thank you, yes, that makes me feel so much better." Phoebe states,
"I'm just saying if this doesn't work then we won't be able to vanquish the Manticores when they come to pick up their little one." Alexis explains, "Which I'm not entirely sure this is a full demon, after all didn't we already deal with a half demon before,"
"Oh, you figured out what they are?" Phoebe asks ignoring Alexis' reference about Cole.
"Yeah, and it's not good, believe me." Piper answers
"So maybe Chris is right." Phoebe states
"Yeah, I know, but I can't." Piper replies,
Alexis glared at her sisters, "I still say if it's genetic then vanquish me right now."
"Piper, you said it yourself, he was born evil." Phoebe replies, "Alexis, he was with his mother,"
"How do you know it was his mother, it could have been his father." Alexis replies
"I know and I still believe that, I do. But something just doesn't add up about him. I mean, why isn't Wyatt using his protective shield? Why doesn't Wyatt think he's evil?" Piper asks
"Well, we gotta keep Wyatt away from him." Phoebe replies, she goes over to the playpen. "That's for sure."
"Phoebe, wait." Piper states
"Phoebe, no!" Alexis exclaims,
Phoebe picks Wyatt up from the playpen. The baby starts crying.
"You stay away from my nephew, okay, and don't shimmer after him or I'll bind your powers." Phoebe states
The baby starts screaming.
"Phoebe, hurry, put him back down." Alexis states,
"What? Okay." Phoebe asks, she puts Wyatt back in the playpen. "Why?"
A creature shimmers in behind Phoebe.
"That's why." Piper replies,The creature hits Phoebe and she flies across the room, landing on Piper. Alexis' and Wyatt's protective shields covers the playpen. The creature reaches into the playpen and the shield zaps him. He tries again and it zaps him again. Piper gets up and tries to blow him up. "Hey! You get away from my kid!"
She continues to try and blow him up until he shimmers out. He shimmers back in behind Piper, grabs her and shimmers back out.
"Get the crystal, I'll take care of Wyatt, and the baby," Alexis states, as she starts humming a lullaby to them.
Phoebe watches Alexis as she starts scrying,
An hour later, Paige walks in and looks in the playpen. The baby is asleep. She walks over to Phoebe and hands her an ice pack. Alexis sat by the playpen contently watching the sleeping infant, she felt like she was being protective because of her future daughter, even now Alexis would gladly die for the teen, but if she did, Lynx wouldn't exist. But somehow she sense Lynx was hiding something that cause distress.
"I feel really bad that I wasn't there to help you earlier." Paige apologizes
"Oh, I don't think you could have helped even if you were there. Thanks. That thing was just as powerful as the Manticore." Phoebe replies
"Are you sure it wasn't the Manticore?" Paige asks
"Yeah, I'm positive, it was more, I don't know, beast-like." Phoebe answers
"What do you think it wanted with the baby?" Paige asks
"I don't know, but I think it's really weird that it showed up right after the baby started crying. You know, as if it could hear him." Phoebe replies
"Maybe we can get the baby to cry again and lure the beast here and torture him into coughing up Piper." Paige suggests
"That's a great idea but we don't have a potion yet. I can't believe I can't find Piper." Phoebe replies
"Okay, let me get started on the potion. The good news is if he wanted to kill Piper by now he probably would have. And undoubtedly he's holding her hostage somewhere, probably magically cloaked. And I think he's gonna use her as leverage to get that baby. Just you watch." Paige states
"Since when did you become an expert on hostage situations?" Phoebe asks
"About an hour ago." Paige answers,
Leo and Chris orb in.
"Hey." Chris greets
"Shh, shh, keep it down, don't wake the baby. Trust me." Alexis states,
Chriswhispers "Where's Piper?"
"That's a really good question." Phoebe answers
"Wait, she's missing?" Leo asks
"Did the Manticores take her?" Chris asks
"No, some other creature that wanted the baby." Phoebe replies
"Damn it, you should have listened to me, you should have vanquished him when you had the chance." Chris states
"Well, it's good that we didn't because we're gonna need the baby to get Piper back." Paige replies
"You guys, shh, keep your voices down." Alexis snaps
"Alexis andI are not convinced that the baby is inherently evil. Which means he's probably not even responsible for any of this." Paige states
"Oh, come on. Will you please talk to them?" Chris asks
"Not everyone is born morally neutral, especially not demons. They're pre-disposed to evil." Leo explains
"Pre-disposed, yeah, but it doesn't mean they can't be raised to overcome it. You can't predict whether a kid is gonna be good or evil based on his genetics." Paige replies
"Paige, Alexis, we're not talking about kids, we're talking about demons." Chris states
"No, we're talking about a demon kid who has so far played nothing but nice with Wyatt." Alexis argued.
"Okay, you guys, this is all irrelevant. We need the baby to find Piper so let's just focus on that, shall we?" Phoebe asks
"She's right. Although I think I should take Wyatt just to be on the safe side." Leo agrees
"What if the other baby wakes up?" Phoebe asks
"They won't be able to follow me where I'm going." Leo answers, he goes over to Wyatt and picks him up.
"He's gonna scream bloody murder and call half the Manticores in the city to come save it. Maybe the beast too." Paige states
"We have to be prepared." Phoebe replies then turns toLeo "Okay, go, just quietly." Leo orbs out with Wyatt. Chris orbs out too. "Let's get started on that potion."
Alexis took one last look at the sleep infant then went over to the potion table, where she started on working on a potion, she puts the last ingredient and the potion smokes. "Well, can't think of anything else to add. This is the most powerful potion we've ever made."
"I agree. I guess it's time to wake up the baby." Phoebe replies,
Paige and Alexis nods. Phoebe's cell phone rings. She answers it.
The baby woke when Phoebe was talking on the phone.
"Have a good flight." Phoebe states, she hangs up. "Toss me a vile." Paige does so. A Manticore demon shimmers in and hits Paige. She flies across the room. Phoebe throws the potion at it and vanquishes it. "Paige, are you okay?"
Lynx runs in when she heard the screaming, she raised her hands and a Manticore blows up, "Damn, I haven't been able to do. But Manticores can't be blow up, how did I do that?"
Paige groans. Three more Manticores shimmer in behind Phoebe and hit her, sending her across the room. They walk towards the girls. The creature shimmers in and attacks the Manticores. The creature reaches into one of the Manticore's chest and rips his heart out, vanquishing him. He turns to the other Manticore and it shimmers out, leaving a puddle of green blood on the floor. The creature walks over to the playpen.
"Phoebe, get the vile." Paige orders
The creature picks up the baby. Phoebe grabs the vile off of the floor and throws it at the creature, hitting his shoulder. He roars and shimmers out.
"So much for our leverage." Phoebe states
Paige sucks some of the Manticore's blood into an eyedropper and hands it to Phoebe.
"This had better work." Paige states
"Oh, it will." Phoebe replies
Leo and Chris orb in.
"We just got back from talking to the Elders and they're at an agreement. If we can't return the baby safely to the Manticores..." Leo states
"We'll vanquish it." Chris finishes.
Alexis' eyes widen, she gritted her teeth then stormed out of the attic, she stopped just around the corner. Lynx watches her young mother go out and realizes what a soft hearted person, Alexis was. But when it came to children, she could turn vicious
"Talk about your moot points, people." Paige replies,
"What's that supposed to mean?" Chris asks
"Well, do you notice anything missing?" Phoebe asks
They look over at the playpen.
"The baby?" Leo asks
"What happened?" Chris asks
"The beast took him. Right after the Manticores kicked our asses." Paige answers, "Well not Lynx, she blew one up."
Lynx motioned, she would explain later.
"This is all Jason's fault." Phoebe states
"How's that?" Leo asks
"Oh, you're a guy, you wouldn't get it." Phoebe replies
"Wait, how are we supposed to get back Piper if we don't have the baby?" Chris asks
"Well, we're gonna try to have another little get together with the Manticores, see if we can't start some sort of deal." Paige replies
"If we can join forces with them to kill the beast, then they can get their baby back." Phoebe adds
"And we can get our sister back." Paige seconds
"And what if they don't want to join forces?" Leo asks
"Well, we hope we have enough of these fancy little things to go around." Paige answers, she holds up a vile.
"No, no way, it's too risky." Chris states
"Well, blood is thicker than water." Phoebe replies, she drips some Manticore blood on the crystal and starts scrying.
"Even diluted blood like mine," Alexis agrees, as she walks back into the attic,
Lynx looked over at Alexis, *Mom, You alright?*
*Fine, but I want no part of those two vanquishing a baby.* Alexis replies, she discovered she could talk back to Lynx only when the two were staring right at each other. She also felt that same feeling when Lynx called her mom.
Manticore Cave. Several Manticores are eating a demon corpse. Phoebe, Alexis, and Paige orb in. They made a disgusted face.
"Hey!" Paige exclaims, the Manticores look up. "Sorry to interrupt."
The Manticores jump up ready to fight.
"Ah-ah! I wouldn't do that if I were you." Phoebe states
Alexis, Phoebe, and Paige hold up two potions each.
"Do you think we have enough potion?" Paige asks
"So, who wants to go hunting with us?" Phoebe asks
The Manticores look at each other.
Creature's house. Piper walks into a room holding a wet towel.
"This is gonna be a little cold." Piper explains, she places the towel on his wound. "The bleeding's not stopping. You should come home with me and we can do more there."
"No, I can't." The Creature replies
"If you're worried about my sisters, I'll..." Piper states
"It's not your sisters I'm worried about. It's the Manticores; they'll be looking for me there. They'll be looking for him there."
"But you don't understand, we have somebody who can heal you once we turn you back into..." Piperexplains
"You can't turn me back. No one can. Not unless I die." Creature interrupts
"So how were you planning on raising your son?" Piper asks
"I wasn't. I figured I'd find someone after. All I cared about was saving him. That's exactly what I'm gonna keep on doing." Creature answers, he gets up and heads for the door. Piper grabs his arm.
"You can't run forever, you know. Not for long, not with that. And who's gonna save him when you're dead?" Piper asks
"You have a way with words, you know that?" Creature questions
"I ad-lib a lot." Piper replies
Alexis, Phoebe and Paige orb in.
"Piper, duck!" Phoebe exclaims
Phoebe and Paige throw a potion each at the creature. Piper blows the potions up. Alexis couldn't help but look around and see baby items that were trashed, 'The beast is the child's father, I knew it.'
"What are you doing?" Paige asks
Two Manticores shimmer in and hits the creature. They push him out of the room. Another one shimmers in and whizzes Piper to Phoebe, Alexis, and Paige.
"Let's get her out of here." Phoebe states
"No, wait." Piper replies
They orb out. The Manticores maul the creature. The baby cries.
The manor's foyer. Paige orbs in with Piper and Phoebe.
"What the hell are you doing?" Piper asks
"Saving your life." Paige replies
"No, no, no, you don't understand. We have to go back, hurry!" Piper exclaims
They orb out.
The creature's house. The creature is laying on the floor. The girls orb in.
"Oh, no." Piper gasps, she kneels beside the creature. Piper looks over at the bed. The baby is gone. The creature turns into the man.
Alexis gasps as she raises her hands to her face, "What have we done?"
Paige orbs in with Piper, Phoebe and the man into the living room of the manor. The man orbs onto the couch. Lynx's eyes widen as she walked into the living room hearing the sound of orbs.
"Leo, we need you!" Piper shouted,Leo and Chris orb in. "Hurry, he's dying."
"Who is he?" Leo asks
Leo goes to his side.
"The beast. Heal, heal, hurry." Phoebe urges
"Where's the baby?" Chris asks
"Manticores have him." Alexis snaps
Leo starts to heal the man.
"Oh, so the plan worked?" Chris asks,
"Yeah, a little too well." Phoebe replies
"Yeah, now we just have to get the baby back." Paige states
"What?" Chris and Lynx asks
"Paige, will you go fill up some potion viles, please?" Piper asks
"Yeah." Paige replies
"Lots of them." Piper states
Paige leaves the room.
"What, hold up. Are you serious? You finally get rid of the demon child and now you wanna risk your lives trying to get it back?" Chris asks
Leo heals the man completely. He sits up.
"He's not a demon child. That's my son." the former creature states
"How are you feeling? Are you alright?" Piper asks
"I can't believe I'm human again."
"Aren't you glad you didn't kill me now?" Piper asks
"Not funny, I don't think that's funny." Leo states,
"Agreed." Chris seconds
"Oh, what, are you two on like the same team now? We're gonna get your baby back, I promise." Phoebe states
"Do we not have a say in this?" Chris asks
"No, we don't. One thing you gotta learn about being their Whitelighter is once they make up their mind, that's it. Besides, I'm a father first." Leo answers
"So we're gonna have to separate the baby before we attack. You know that, right?" Alexis asks
"Why?" the man asks
"Well, because the potion vanquishes Manticores, and your son is half Manticore." Piper replies
Manticore cave. All the Manticores are asleep. The baby is sitting in the middle of them all. Paige orbs in with Piper, Phoebe, and Alexis.
"I see him." Piper states
"Let's just hope he sees you before they see us." Phoebe replies,
"Should I just orb the baby to us?" Paige questions
"No, he'll probably just shimmer back and then we'll be in really big trouble. This is gonna work." Piper replies
"Hurry, hurry." Phoebe urges
They get out a lot of potions from a pouch. The Manticores get restless.
"Peekaboo. You can do it. Come on, come on, come on." Piper states, the Manticores sit up. "Peekaboo." The Manticores smell their scent and stand up, looking around. "Come on, you can do it." The baby shimmers out. The Manticores look around for him and spot the girls. Two whiz towards them and Piper and Phoebe throw a potion each at them, vanquishing them. The rest whiz towards them and they throw the rest of the potions, vanquishing them all. The baby shimmers back in, giggling. The girls go over to him. "You're okay. Hi. Hi." Alexis picks him up. "Good job."
"So much for nature being more important than nurture." Paige states.
Manor's conservatory. The man is looking at his son in the playpen. Piper walks in with a stroller and Alexis carrying a brown paper bag.
"Here's some clothes and a stroller." Piper states
"You sure you don't mind?" Man asks
"No, not at all. Wyatt's out grown them all and I don't see myself having more kids anytime soon, so enjoy." Piper replies,
Alexis hands him the bag of clothes, hiding the smirk as she knew Piper's future son was standing right in the room hiding a smirk of his own.
"Thanks. For everything. I just, I wish there was something I can do for you." Man states
Paige walks in.
"Well, you could tell us your name." Paige suggests
"Sorry?" Man asks
"I mean, unless you prefer being called 'the beast'?" Paige asks
"Derek, my name's Derek." Man answers,
"It's nice to meet you, Derek." Piper replies
"What's his name?" Paige asks
"I never gave him one, actually, I never had the chance." Derek replies
"Well, now you do." Piper states
"Well, I guess I should be going, that is if I can pry him away from Wyatt." Derek states
"Yeah, good luck." Piper replies
The baby shimmers out and shimmers back in the stroller.
"That is cute." Paige states, the phone rings. "I'll get it."
Paige leaves the room.
"You know, if you ever need us to bind his powers..." Piper suggests, taking Alexis' suggestion to heart.
"No, thanks, that's really sweet but it's not necessary. He's a good boy so it's just up to me to make sure he stays that way." Derek interrupts
"In that case he's in good hands. Well, take care." Piper replies
"You too." Derek responds
Derek pushes the stroller out of the room. Paige walks back in and groans.
"What? What'd you do?" Piper asks
"I kind of forgot to reverse the spell I put on Darryl." Paige answers, sheepishly
Police Station. Darryl's Office. The whole office is a mess. There's broken door handles, broken filing cabinet drawers, coat stand broken in half. Darryl is sitting in his chair and he breaks the phone in half. He carefully puts the phone down on the desk and the whole desk breaks and crashes to the floor.
"Paige!" Darryl shouts